(but we can't afford to educate our children... bright.)
Note: Im trying to cite sources on both sides-- not just heritage, but also huffington-- and to include "primary" sources (US Dept of Education).
Interesting thing about education is that there seems to be little direct relationship between spending and results with education. Look at [PDF WARNING] per-pupil spending by state (Table 8, on page 26), and compare to NAEP performance by state. You have some top spenders in the first few top spots, but you also have the very top spenders-- New York and DC-- all the way at the bottom of the list; and you have a number of others scattered throughout the rankings. It would be nice if there were a combined graph somewhere, but I wasnt able to find one.
Its almost as if, after a certain point, spending on education has very little effect. Almost as if "getting iPads for your students" doesnt ACTUALLY magically implant knowledge in their brain, or motivate them to learn. Almost as if there are much more important factors like family and community involvement.
Or do like I do, find some document, object, painting, or device near where I work, go to school, or live, and take a phrase off of it. Mangle the phrase a little bit, you have yourself a secure password thats already written down.
Hey, now you even know my pattern. Have fun figuring out what I used.
When you're purchasing or renting a product, its important to make sure you know what youre purchasing or renting, and what it can / cant do.
I rather imagine that what parent paid for was the right to watch a video on his XBox, one or more times.
Im not sure if people are being obtuse when they make these kind of arguments. I think everyone gets the whole "DRM is dangerous" argument, and the arguments that it corrodes freedom. Stick to that and cut the stupid arguments.
For example, some countries require citizens to file income tax returns using software that runs only on Windows, an operating system that ships with media players supporting MPAA-approved video DRM.
Which countries are these?
it's becoming more and more of a necessity to own a cellphone, and the vast majority of cellphones ship with bootloader DRM or MPAA-approved video DRM or both.
The vast majority of cellphones have neither of those things and are not smartphones.
The discussion was explicitly on whether what Intel is doing here is useful. For the majority of the market, the answer is yes.
There are areas where OpenCL and Cuda are useful. That is in no way relevant to the discussion. Noone is saying that powerful hardware is useful, we're saying that most users have no need for it and that integrated graphics are actually useful to actual people.
IIRC transcoding / decoding with Intel's quicksync is actually VERY competitive with a discrete GPU. And all of those CUDA / OpenCL tasks are hardly representative of the average user.
As parent said, for the 99% use case, Intel integrated are sufficient.
So are you a lawyer, or are you just hoping that your semantic argument will win the judge over?
Last I checked, intent plays a huge role in law; if you suspect that you are breaking the law, that can in some circumstances be enough-- whether or not you technically told a lie or decieved someone.
I wont say for sure that its illegal (not being a lawyer), but Im almost positive Ive heard of people being convicted for similar things. In general, if you think something might be illegal, its a really bad idea to do it.
If you tell a machine you want $20 and it gives you $40, you haven't committed an act of deception.
True.
(even if you do it repeatedly)
Theres "technically possible", and theres "fraud". Sometimes the two overlap.
Intentionally abusing a process in bad faith can be a crime, and should be a crime; society doesnt make rules based on whether something is "possible", just based on whether it should be allowed.
I have no desire to get involved in a discussion on peak oil, but I would point out that this
And if it cost > 1 joule of energy to extract oil that gives 1 joule, it's not worth it.
Is false.
Spending 1 joule of hard-to-store nuclear energy to extract 1 joule worth of high-density, easily stored oil could be a very good value proposition indeed. We already do this when we store energy with a loss in various ways (fuel cells, batteries, etc).
Could have had our cake and eaten it too if Wave had taken off. This is what it was REALLY for, but noone seemed to get it and Google sucks at PR.
Imagine visiting your wave inbox, which is connected to the forum waves that you subscribed to, and seeing the wave chats you were participating in on facebook.
Try #pfsense, or #powershell, or #exchange, or #{somethingITrelated}. One assumes if youre going into a discussion on Powershell the first thing you type isnt going to be "ASL", especially since we have these things called "channel operators".
3344 users would actually constitute a reasonable income for two guys working for a month or two on the title. 200 probably represents a loss vs working the lucrative job of a waiter.
Maybe you should revisit the flawed assumption that "pirating" and "demoing" are the same thing, and that a pirated copy will be the same as a legit one.
Until you see the actual sales of this game, where ~200 copies were legitimately purchased and the remaining 93% were pirated.
I dont know that the indy devs would call that "a little fun" as much as a "gee, do I really want to fight these battles forever as an indy dev?" wakeup moment.
The linked forums indicate that the piracy rate is, in fact, 6.4%, and that only ~214 copies were legitimate.
Kind of puts holes into all of the "just make a better product" arguments, huh?
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Does it really matter that much to you whether its 3.9 or 3.8.1.24.96?
The number is incrementing at the same rate it used to, they just got rid of the stupid digit in the middle which ceased having any meaning years ago. Linux has been using the third digit as "minor" revision for years now, and they no longer do even-odd versioning with the second digit.
Seriously, everyone with a hangup about version numbers, get over yourself.
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(but we can't afford to educate our children... bright.)
Note: Im trying to cite sources on both sides-- not just heritage, but also huffington-- and to include "primary" sources (US Dept of Education).
Interesting thing about education is that there seems to be little direct relationship between spending and results with education. Look at [PDF WARNING] per-pupil spending by state (Table 8, on page 26), and compare to NAEP performance by state. You have some top spenders in the first few top spots, but you also have the very top spenders-- New York and DC-- all the way at the bottom of the list; and you have a number of others scattered throughout the rankings. It would be nice if there were a combined graph somewhere, but I wasnt able to find one.
Also (and I didnt know this till looking it up just now), apparently per-student expenditures have doubled since 1970, and yet scores have remained flat:
http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/796DF8C7C231CFFE366308277E88CF57.gif
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-gates/bill-gates-school-performance_b_829771.html
(verify the numbers @ http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66 and http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlite-chart.html)
Its almost as if, after a certain point, spending on education has very little effect. Almost as if "getting iPads for your students" doesnt ACTUALLY magically implant knowledge in their brain, or motivate them to learn. Almost as if there are much more important factors like family and community involvement.
Or do like I do, find some document, object, painting, or device near where I work, go to school, or live, and take a phrase off of it. Mangle the phrase a little bit, you have yourself a secure password thats already written down.
Hey, now you even know my pattern. Have fun figuring out what I used.
Ever tried to use a Music CD to file your taxes?
Thats the logic you're employing. Parent never paid for the right to do any of those things, he paid for the right to watch a video on his xbox.
When you're purchasing or renting a product, its important to make sure you know what youre purchasing or renting, and what it can / cant do.
I rather imagine that what parent paid for was the right to watch a video on his XBox, one or more times.
Im not sure if people are being obtuse when they make these kind of arguments. I think everyone gets the whole "DRM is dangerous" argument, and the arguments that it corrodes freedom. Stick to that and cut the stupid arguments.
I smell ad hominems of multiple varieties.
Guess what the publishers have decided on as one of the costs for their games?
Again, if you dont like it, dont buy it. But you dont get to set the rules on games that someone else writes and publishes.
For example, some countries require citizens to file income tax returns using software that runs only on Windows, an operating system that ships with media players supporting MPAA-approved video DRM.
Which countries are these?
it's becoming more and more of a necessity to own a cellphone, and the vast majority of cellphones ship with bootloader DRM or MPAA-approved video DRM or both.
The vast majority of cellphones have neither of those things and are not smartphones.
The discussion was explicitly on whether what Intel is doing here is useful. For the majority of the market, the answer is yes.
There are areas where OpenCL and Cuda are useful. That is in no way relevant to the discussion. Noone is saying that powerful hardware is useful, we're saying that most users have no need for it and that integrated graphics are actually useful to actual people.
IIRC transcoding / decoding with Intel's quicksync is actually VERY competitive with a discrete GPU. And all of those CUDA / OpenCL tasks are hardly representative of the average user.
As parent said, for the 99% use case, Intel integrated are sufficient.
So are you a lawyer, or are you just hoping that your semantic argument will win the judge over?
Last I checked, intent plays a huge role in law; if you suspect that you are breaking the law, that can in some circumstances be enough-- whether or not you technically told a lie or decieved someone.
I wont say for sure that its illegal (not being a lawyer), but Im almost positive Ive heard of people being convicted for similar things. In general, if you think something might be illegal, its a really bad idea to do it.
If you tell a machine you want $20 and it gives you $40, you haven't committed an act of deception.
True.
(even if you do it repeatedly)
Theres "technically possible", and theres "fraud". Sometimes the two overlap.
Intentionally abusing a process in bad faith can be a crime, and should be a crime; society doesnt make rules based on whether something is "possible", just based on whether it should be allowed.
I have no desire to get involved in a discussion on peak oil, but I would point out that this
And if it cost > 1 joule of energy to extract oil that gives 1 joule, it's not worth it.
Is false.
Spending 1 joule of hard-to-store nuclear energy to extract 1 joule worth of high-density, easily stored oil could be a very good value proposition indeed. We already do this when we store energy with a loss in various ways (fuel cells, batteries, etc).
Could have had our cake and eaten it too if Wave had taken off. This is what it was REALLY for, but noone seemed to get it and Google sucks at PR.
Imagine visiting your wave inbox, which is connected to the forum waves that you subscribed to, and seeing the wave chats you were participating in on facebook.
Alas, "easy" often triumphs over "best".
What chatrooms are you checking?
Try #pfsense, or #powershell, or #exchange, or #{somethingITrelated}. One assumes if youre going into a discussion on Powershell the first thing you type isnt going to be "ASL", especially since we have these things called "channel operators".
You can persuasively argue that piracy by people who wouldn't pay for a product doesn't translate to lost revenue.
No, you cant, unless you completely ignore the foundational economic concept of supply and demand.
Piracy lowers demand. Everyone who took econ 101: What will that do to the price?
3344 users would actually constitute a reasonable income for two guys working for a month or two on the title. 200 probably represents a loss vs working the lucrative job of a waiter.
That tracker is a major source of content for bored people. And there are lots of bored people in this world. And they download absolutely anything.
Right, and in days gone by that might have been a demographic with disposable income.
Im not sure, but Im not going to make an attempt to justify piracy with that line of thought.
The fact is
* There IS a demo
* This game is dirt cheap
* This is an indy studio
* Theyre making very little money
And scores of posters are STILL trying to justify piracy. At the least this dev deserves to have only those who have paid, receive this game.
Maybe you should revisit the flawed assumption that "pirating" and "demoing" are the same thing, and that a pirated copy will be the same as a legit one.
$8 / game *214 legitimate copies = $1600.
Woooo what a payday. How many devs, how many days of work? Unless its "one dev" and "2 weeks", its not what you would really call "good profit".
THe real game is $8, and DRM free. Theyre experiencing the same 93.5% piracy rate that the poisoned copy reflects.
Id say its pretty darn realistic, yes.
Until you see the actual sales of this game, where ~200 copies were legitimately purchased and the remaining 93% were pirated.
I dont know that the indy devs would call that "a little fun" as much as a "gee, do I really want to fight these battles forever as an indy dev?" wakeup moment.
6.4% should be purchase rate, sorry
The linked forums indicate that the piracy rate is, in fact, 6.4%, and that only ~214 copies were legitimate.
Kind of puts holes into all of the "just make a better product" arguments, huh?
Does it really matter that much to you whether its 3.9 or 3.8.1.24.96?
The number is incrementing at the same rate it used to, they just got rid of the stupid digit in the middle which ceased having any meaning years ago. Linux has been using the third digit as "minor" revision for years now, and they no longer do even-odd versioning with the second digit.
Seriously, everyone with a hangup about version numbers, get over yourself.